#i could tangent more abt 2 affecting 1 -- not in the 'mixing words up' way but in how it might influence speaking patterns/affect but iykyk

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(overthinking on my lunchbreak:)

lark came proficient with 5 languages and to me those reasons are:

common - the dominant language where she grew up and the one we tend to be communicating in in-game. it's a little difficult to not equivocate it to english due to setting and because that's what we're all speaking at the table, and with that in mind i think she makes an effort to speak most in what would be the most "standard" accent while traveling, but she probably slips into a more region/city-specific accent when talking with dimitri or people she's comfortable with.

elvish - also raised with this, i think she considers herself to only have bilingual fluency. tends to only speak this with her family or around her neighborhood, rarely spoke it at all at wizard school and doesn't even really use it with dimitri.

orcish - probably knew some phrases and basic exchanges growing up but actively studied it while at school, with the mindset that doing field work might lead her to places where this would be useful to know. can read alright, but her pronunciation is noticeably stilted and clumsy

abyssal - this one is very funny to me and has only come up once in game. i think she learned this at wizard school so she could pick through texts for magic spell nerd reasons. has rarely heard it spoken aloud so her pronunciation is absolutely atrocious and i doubt she could hold a decent conversation

sylvan - same as abyssal

when we started the game, i actually had lark having a comprehend languages spell under her belt (again with the idea that lark planned to travel/do field work and would think this prudent) but it never really came up so the gm later let me swap it out for something else.

anyway i can barely get coherent spoken sentences myself out so unfortunately i can't really express this in play, but that's my meta.